With summer officially arriving this past weekend to mark the start of the traditional “peak season”, we wanted to take the opportunity to provide you with an update on our operational status, as well as a market update of current rates and conditions. OPERATIONAL STATUS We remain fully operational and open for business. Most of our […]
Overnight airfreight. Every shipping manager’s least favorite option. Let’s face it, if you need overnight air freight, something has usually gone drastically wrong. The situation typically goes something like this: Either your customer needs a critical part to keep their plant up and running, you are dangerously low on a key inventory component, or you […]
Let’s face it, changing freight forwarders can be a real hassle. It takes time and effort to find a good one and training them on your company’s procedures and service requirements is like house-breaking a new puppy. Who has time for it? Moreover, choose poorly and it can have a huge negative impact your company […]
Service Returns After a Three Year Absence Affordable Option to UPS/FedEx Air & Surface Logistics is pleased to announce the return of wide-body air-freighter service to the U.S. domestic air cargo market after a three year absence. After the closure of BAX (Burlington Air Express) in 2011, shippers were left with virtually no options […]
With less than a week remaining until the current contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) expires, U.S. Customs (CBP) has published interim procedures in the case of a West Coast dock strike. Click here for a link to the CBP whitepaper with detailed information on the […]
As was widely anticipated, trucking delays have been mounting in recent weeks in the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach, the nation’s busiest port and gateway to Asia. The delays are largely the result of a scramble to offload vessels and get freight out of the harbor in advance of next week’s July 1st deadline for […]
Since late last year, shippers have struggled with both a serious shortage of container chassis, as well as port congestion at the nation’s largest ports. These two challenges are inter-related and have been especially severe at the nations’s busiest ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach and New York/New Jersey. Matters have been compounded on the East […]
In the age of Amazon Prime, free shipping and drones delivering packages directly to your residence, we thought we would offer you a little bit of down-to-earth advice while Amazon.com works the kinks out of their drone program. After all, who doesn’t like to save on shipping? In today’s article, we take a look […]
Here it is January of the New Year and you promised your boss that you were going to sit down and review your list of vendors. Or worse, your longtime freight broker has suddenly gone out of business, a roadkill victim of the new MAP-21 legislation recently mandated by Congress. In this article, we take […]
Winter Storm Dion Means Rough Weekend for Transportation East & West Posted: 12/7/2013 By Blake Cotcamp Meteorology Intern Update (12/10/13): As of Tuesday afternoon, the East Coast and upper Midwest were both was still receiving snow, freezing rain and hazardous winter driving conditions. Shippers should continue to expect transit delays to these regions […]
